stick to the ribs

The food is stick to the ribs and packed with flavor.

Because magazines stick to the ribs and get people thinking."

Tex-Mex food has a reputation for being the kind that sticks to the ribs and the thighs.

He writes stuff that sticks to the ribs.

Of all the words that have stuck to the ribs of my soul, poetry has been the most filling.

And them clam chowders of his stuck to the ribs better'n most things.

Meat, kasha or maybe barley, carrots, onions - it stuck to the ribs.

If you're looking for a soothing feast that will stick to the ribs (and major arteries) in a most pleasing way, it's a formula that works.

"I'm not much for sweets, I'm a meat-and-potatoes man--sticks to the ribs.

Good beer, real fire, plenty of chat, a couple of snugs and a bowl of mutton stew to stick to the ribs...

It stuck to the ribs the way a hearty stew was supposed to do, and it clung to various joints, clogging the cavities and crevices.

Food of this type, with its creamy sauces and stout portions, can stick to the ribs and everywhere else, but Cafe Andrusha stays hearty without being leaden.

When Mrs. Marron came to the table to remove the plates, she said, "You should eat something, Mr. Qwilleran, something to stick to the ribs."

Trying to play with the big boys, U.S. News & World Report is "the McWeekly of the newsmags, fast, fast food, almost none of which sticks to the ribs."

He would have preferred something with more substance than bread-like a haunch of venison, or a brace of partridges, or at least a pigeon pie or something else to stick to the ribs.

Bryan Carroll of Allmusic criticized the predominance of "mood pieces", and stated, "on the whole Soul Food Taqueria fails to stick to the ribs because it simply lacks the proper spice".

It wasn't what he would have eaten by choice-it was as far as the moon from the feast Rufus Daniel had been imagining-but cornmeal had a way of sticking to the ribs that made a man forget he was hungry for a while.

The dishes had names like Slumgullet, Boiled Eels, Lob Scouse, Wet Nellies, Slumpie and Treacle Billy - good, solid stuff that stuck to the ribs and made it hard to get up out of the seat.

Impossible even to begin to imagine such a phrase made with the others: try as you will you can't get your mouth around the words "just sloth," or "just covetousness," to say nothing of the deadly breakfast cereal that sticks to the ribs for all eternity, "just lust."

Berghoff lives in two ages: one in which the food was hearty, portions were large and patrons did not worry about waistlines, and the modern one, in which diners crave culinary ingenuity, the spiciness of Thai or Mexican cuisine and foods less apt to stick to the ribs.